The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain and Their Allies the Club Mosses, Pepperworths and Horsetails stix with the excellent dust-jacket

with the excellent dust-jacket

all first editions

inscribed by the author to Nancy Wigginton (Nan Winton) the first female newreader to read the national news on BBC television

and gilt title and standing rifleman to the spine

Illustrated throughout

The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain and Their Allies the Club Mosses, Pepperworths and Horsetails stix with the excellent dust-jacketLondon: Frederick Warne, 1899. New edition, in four volumes, wholly revised by Edward Step. Royal 8vo (10 x 6. 5 ins); pp. xiv, (1), 269; xii, 279; xi, 258; xi, 213. 319 coloured plates and 5 uncoloured plates in total, including the frontispieces (with tissue guards). Original decorative Art Nouveau cloth, gilt title lettering to front and spines, top edges gilt. Ex. libris Violet Ormonde Matthews with ink inscription dated 1899 to front of vol I.